WalkablyIs Viseu walkable?
This page covers greater Viseu: 104,000 people, including Silgueiros and Torredeita.
In Viseu, the walk to public transport is the strong point: 2 minutes for the typical building, much better than most of Europe. The walk to culture is the weak point: most buildings have none within 20 minutes. Walking is easiest in São Salvador (score 63) and hardest in Vil de Souto in São Cipriano e Vil do Souto (score 30): a gap of 33 points.
The walk to eight daily needs
The typical walk is the middle value: half of the buildings in Viseu have a shorter walk, and half have a longer one. The words compare it with every place where people live in the 20 countries on the map, so the same minutes get the same word everywhere.
| Need | Typical walk | Compared with Europe | Buildings with one within 20 min |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groceries | 6 min | Better than most | 82% |
| Food and drink | 4 min | Better than most | 96% |
| Shops | 5 min | Better than most | 94% |
| Health | 13 min | About typical | 68% |
| School | 5 min | Better than most | 96% |
| Parks | 5 min | About typical | 87% |
| Culture | 21 min | Nothing within 20 minutes for most buildings | 49% |
| Public transport | 2 min | Much better than most | 100% |
Compared with the rest of the country
The map is cut into six-sided cells 55 m across, and every cell that a street passes through gets a score: we call these street cells. We sort all 4,070,211 street cells in Portugal from hardest to easiest to walk, then cut the list into five equal groups, called fifths. In Viseu, 48% of the street cells are in the most walkable fifth, more than the 20% of an average place.
| Fifth of the street cells in Portugal | Bar | Viseu |
|---|---|---|
| Most walkable fifth | 48% | |
| Second fifth | 35% | |
| Middle fifth | 12% | |
| Fourth fifth | 4% | |
| Least walkable fifth | 2% |
The city at a glance
On the map, click any street to see its score and the walk to each need.
The most and least walkable areas
Each street cell takes the name of the nearest neighbourhood, village or town on OpenStreetMap, up to 1.5 km away. We rank the 8 areas where people live: each has at least 200 street cells and 251 buildings, and at least a quarter as many buildings per street cell as Viseu as a whole, so ports, hill parks and farmland drop out. Click a name to open it on the map.
Even Vil de Souto in São Cipriano e Vil do Souto, the least walkable area here, has 66% of its street cells in the most walkable fifth in Portugal. Viseu walks far better than most of the country, so even its weakest areas beat most other places.
Most walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 63 | 91% | |
| 62 | 90% | |
| 59 | 99% | |
| 59 | 94% |
Least walkable
| Area | Typical score | In the top fifth |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 66% | |
| 34 | 73% | |
| 39 | 94% | |
| 52 | 96% |
Cities like Viseu
These three cities come closest to Viseu in number of people and typical score, from any of the 20 countries. Viseu scores higher than 2 of them and lower than 1.
| City | Country | People | Typical score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlisle | United Kingdom | 108,000 | 52 |
| Siegen | Germany | 103,000 | 54 |
| Ashford | United Kingdom | 128,000 | 52 |
What this page covers
This page uses the area Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, calls greater Viseu: the city and the towns that have grown into it. Besides Viseu itself, it takes in Silgueiros and Torredeita. About 104,000 people live there (2025 figure). Inside it we scored 31,954 street cells with 16,874 buildings in them.
Every number here comes from the same scores as the map. The score runs from 0 to 100. The walk to eight daily needs on real streets makes up 60% of it, and how pleasant the streets are makes up 40%. The comparison with Europe counts every place by its buildings, 163,668,724 buildings in all. How the score works.